tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042538732461826230.post3428628652468176403..comments2019-05-25T15:39:56.287+01:00Comments on NeverSeconds: Before the stormVEGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16816159627303520957noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042538732461826230.post-53588937037340847712012-11-02T16:02:31.137+00:002012-11-02T16:02:31.137+00:00It makes me sad when children believe that because...It makes me sad when children believe that because chicken and vegetables are healthy that things like chicken nuggets (usually with a sugary/fatty/salty sauce) and anything with &quot;veggie&quot; in the name are good food choices. Kind of like finding out that a good number of them believe that greenhouse gases are *produced* by greenhouses. They&#39;re learning, but learning the wrong things.Monique in TXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12215851108075565857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042538732461826230.post-6570936296039773322012-11-02T16:00:29.708+00:002012-11-02T16:00:29.708+00:00It makes me sad when children say that chicken and...It makes me sad when children say that chicken and veggies are healthful so chicken nuggets and any sort of product with &quot;veggie&quot; in the name are healthful. They&#39;re learning, but learning only half the story.Monique in TXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12215851108075565857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042538732461826230.post-28819017816839975902012-11-02T01:07:10.122+00:002012-11-02T01:07:10.122+00:00I&#39;m all with You about the fresh vegetables.. ...I&#39;m all with You about the fresh vegetables.. <br />We don&#39;t have those &quot;veggie straws&quot; here in Germany, so I had to search the web for some more details about that stuff..<br />Made from:<br />Potato flour (Potato flakes and Potato starch), sunflower oil, wheat starch, tomato puree, spinach powder, salt, sugar and turmeric.<br /><br />So in fact, it&#39;s potato chips with some (natural) vegetable aroma added. And those things are made like chips, with a whole lot of fat involved in the process.<br /><br />Vitamins: nearly none..<br />130 calories per pack, of which 50&amp; comes from fat.<br /><br />Healthy? Well.. compared to say.. BBBQ Chips they sure are a lot healthier. But compared to fresh vegetables they are about as healthy as BBQ Chips.<br />To read that kids in an age, when teaching them what healthy food is and why it is so important to keep away from too much unhealthy stuff would be the thing to do, get stuff like that to eat and even consider it healthy makes me kinda sad.<br />School doesn&#39;t teach them.. parents don&#39;t teach them (probably they don&#39;t know it better themselves..) and the food industry makes lots of money selling stuff like these &quot;veggie staws&quot; by presenting them as healthy food, because they contain 30% less fat than ordinary potato chips. Wow.. Still a massiv amount more than a real carrot. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042538732461826230.post-27696731728698240712012-11-01T21:29:47.054+00:002012-11-01T21:29:47.054+00:00I am a bit surprised that the lunches from this we...I am a bit surprised that the lunches from this week were not healthier. I can see the healthy attempts. Those are even minor. Bread, veggies. These kids seem to have a lot of influence from home of not liking something. Picky children aren&#39;t born picky. I hope that changes can be made in the US to use less processed foods. Even if they aren&#39;t &quot;kid friendly&quot; health begins early.Mike Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07721133703486203100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042538732461826230.post-2738860160966103112012-11-01T18:14:25.844+00:002012-11-01T18:14:25.844+00:00I&#39;ve been really enjoying Zee and Sunflower&#3...I&#39;ve been really enjoying Zee and Sunflower&#39;s opinions on food- their perspective on food is rather amusing! That makes me feel really old, saying that- I&#39;m only 12!!!! It really makes you look back... <br />Charlihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12434359016655469931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042538732461826230.post-181408285020259272012-11-01T14:26:04.566+00:002012-11-01T14:26:04.566+00:00American cheese is a processed cheese product but ...American cheese is a processed cheese product but it varies greatly by brand. Some are organic and natural and some have lots of fillers. Other countries have it and it is just sold as cheese singles- the processed part always seems to be in very small print! Dawn Cantrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13555813567179172978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042538732461826230.post-68266172321547661822012-11-01T08:46:38.733+00:002012-11-01T08:46:38.733+00:00Ms El, Zee, Sunflower another great post and Zee c...Ms El, Zee, Sunflower another great post and Zee certainly is entertaining.<br /><br />My thoughts are with all on the East coast of the USA.Well Done Veghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11860979518997459465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042538732461826230.post-28886342817294810342012-10-31T20:45:38.182+00:002012-10-31T20:45:38.182+00:00Stay safe everyone!Stay safe everyone!lfpikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04391753814936008567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042538732461826230.post-34526701391900860152012-10-31T18:50:22.130+00:002012-10-31T18:50:22.130+00:00I know many schools have finally decided not to of...I know many schools have finally decided not to offer chocolate or strawberry milk for school lunches. Given the fact that it seems Sunflower and Zee often don&#39;t drink most (or any) of theirs, the thought does occur to me that they might just as well be throwing out regular milk. If nothing else, I assume chocolate or strawberry milk is more expensive. If it&#39;s just going to be thrown away, why throw away the more expensive stuff?<br /><br />(My own objection to flavored milks in school lunches is because of the very high levels of sugar in them.)<br /><br /><br />I know some schools in the storm area are back open by today. Long Island was one of the harder hit areas, so they may remain closed a few more days. If nothing else, the power is still out in large areas of Long Island and many schoools are still in use as emergency shelters. Even when they re-open, public transit is still crippled, so many students and teachers may not have a way to get to school.<br /><br />For those not familiar with US geography, this storm was about 900 miles/1450 kilometers in diameter (which is more than twice the distance from London to Edinburgh), so encompassed most of the eastern US, and its effects are being felt as far west as the Mississippi River. So it&#39;s about a third of this very large country that is trying to deal with the aftermath of this storm.Jaylah Priesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00694964681619391621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042538732461826230.post-84298222750410489442012-10-31T18:35:47.174+00:002012-10-31T18:35:47.174+00:00Calling that packaged food &quot;veggie straws&quo...Calling that packaged food &quot;veggie straws&quot; seems highly-optimistic if no doubt completely accurate - one imagines that in addition to &quot;potato flour&quot; the &quot;starch&quot; referred to derives from corn (i.e. maize). It sounds absolutely disgusting.<br /><br />The meal of the other child seems marginally better.<br /><br />In general the meals this week seem awful, but I expect it is at least partly a function of the home environments that these children come from.<br /><br />Although I personally would not care to eat a completely vegetarian diet, I must say that the food from last week (from India) seemed immensely better.<br /><br />Couldn&#39;t this week&#39;s children have a few sticks of fresh carrot or celery in their lunch-boxes? A lot more healthy and probably a good deal cheaper than over-processed &#39;muck&#39; (I&#39;m sorry, but I can&#39;t think of a nicer way of describing packaged &#39;veggie sticks&#39;). Mind you, would at least one of these children eat this, given the shockingly-poor nutritional examples that seem to be available? I&#39;m so pleased I went to school before awful products such as &#39;chicken nuggets&#39; became common.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10393265755614039206noreply@blogger.com